<= (Less Than or Equal To) (Transact-SQL)
Applies to: SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance Azure Synapse Analytics Analytics Platform System (PDW) SQL analytics endpoint in Microsoft Fabric Warehouse in Microsoft Fabric SQL database in Microsoft Fabric
Compares two expressions (a comparison operator). When you compare nonnull expressions, the result is TRUE if the left operand has a value lower than or equal to the right operand; otherwise, the result is FALSE.
Unlike the = (equality) comparison operator, the result of the >= comparison of two NULL values does not depend on the ANSI_NULLS setting.
Transact-SQL syntax conventions
Syntax
expression <= expression
Arguments
expression
Is any valid expression. Both expressions must have implicitly convertible data types. The conversion depends on the rules of data type precedence.
Result Types
Boolean
Examples
A. Using <= in a simple query
The following example returns all rows in the HumanResources.Department
table that have a value in DepartmentID
that is less than or equal to the value 3.
-- Uses AdventureWorks
SELECT DepartmentID, Name
FROM HumanResources.Department
WHERE DepartmentID <= 3
ORDER BY DepartmentID;
Here's the result set.
DepartmentID Name
------------ --------------------------------------------------
1 Engineering
2 Tool Design
3 Sales
(3 row(s) affected)